Key information
- Status: Closed
- Grant amount: Individual grants of up to $15,000. Groups of councils submitting a joint application could apply for up to $15,000 for each participating council
- Application opened: 21 March 2025
- Application closed: 29 April 2025, 4:00 pm
Program objective
The key messages of Scrap Together are:
- increase awareness that all food waste can be placed into the FOGO bin
- increase awareness that only food waste can be placed in the FOGO bin
- increase the likelihood of people placing their food waste in the FOGO bin rather than the red lid bin
- motivate people to keep contaminationout of their FOGO bins.
This program is administered by Environment Protection Authority.
Eligibility
Who can apply
NSW Councils, groups of NSW Councils
Types of projects funded under this grant
Applicants must:
- be a NSW Council. Eligible councils may wish to apply as a group and have a regional project co-ordinated (and grant submitted and administered) by a regional waste group, joint or regional organisation of councils. Councils are not eligible to apply for individual funding as well as part of a joint project
- have an existing FOGO service that has been in place for at least 12 months before the application close. For group projects, all participating councils must meet this requirement
- ensure the collected FOGO is processed at a suitably licenced facility
- use the Scrap Together education materials. All resources can be accessed and downloaded at www.scraptogether.com.au
- ensure education/communications are delivered for a minimum of four months (this could be a continuous four months or broken into waves. Planning and reporting activities are in addition to the delivery period)
- include in their project as a minimum:
- content delivered via council owned channels e.g. council’s website, social media, truck delivery, council newsletters, information in the rates notice
- content delivered via non council channels e.g. articles or ads in local newspapers, radio, community newsletters
- if developing new material (including updating existing materials):
- use the key messages and Scrap Together design in the development of any new education material according to the Scrappy Little Style Guide on scraptogether.com.au
- ensure they are approved by the EPA before finalisation or use
- enable them to be used by other councils once it’s been tested.
- submit the grant application using the SmartyGrants Platform by 4pm 29 April 2025.
What your application needs to include
Please refer to the Grant Guidelines on the EPA website for further information.
The EPA Organics Unit is available to help applicants with their application. Please email organics.grants@epa.nsw.gov.au for assistance.
Each applicant, as part of an application response, must confirm that they meet the eligibility criteria.
Applicants that do not address the eligibility criteria in full may be excluded from the application process at the department's discretion.
After the application is submitted
Successful applications will be decided by: EPA Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Applications will undergo an eligibility check before being reviewed by an independent Technical Review Committee (TRC).
The TRC will also assess whether the project should be awarded the additional MUD funding.
Following the assessment and approval process, successful applicants are expected to be notified in mid 2025.